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West Must Take Five Steps Now To Encourage Members Of Russian Elite To Break With Putin And Flee Abroad – OpEd

Eurasia Review Saturday, 18 January 2025 ()
Between 1953 and 1990, more than 1200 members of the Soviet elite fled abroad, individual actions that Western governments supported because they calculated that this would weaken the communist regime in Moscow, Aaron Lea and Borukh Taskin say. But under Putin, almost no members of the elite have fled.

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